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Xanathar's Guide to Everything (p. 157) features the spell Illusory Dragon. Maybe it's me, but doesn't the spell description scream Sorcerer (especially Draconic Bloodline)? Imagine my surprise when I saw that the spell is only available to Wizards.

Would it be balanced to allow this spell for Sorcerers?

Maybe I am missing some extreme synergy with a Sorcerer class feature that would make it overpowered...

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It's fine

It's a really high level spell, and I doubt it's on very many Wizards' short-list of spells they would choose on level-up. It screams Illusionist to me, but I could certainly see a Draconic Bloodline sorcerer having it, even if just for flavor. It doesn't seem unbalanced at all with other Sorcerer Level 8 spells, and you will have to take it instead of a different spell that you'd take/swap between levels 15 and 20.

To add to this, even the DMG (p. 287) says changing spell lists isn't generally a problem, except for the Warlock spell list due to short rest recovery:

Modifying a class’s spell list usually has little effect on a character’s power but can change the flavor of a class significantly.

Which I suspect is exactly what you want. No problem at all.

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